RasterEdge Image products powerful and flexible support for high-quality PDF document viewing, printing & annotating in .NET Framework as well as web server with advanced capabilities, such as text extraction, hyperlinks, bookmarks and metadata as well as updating, splitting and merging pages from existing PDF documents.

What is PDF?

PDF is short for Portable Document Format developed by Adobe, which is the global standard for viewing, capturing and printing rich information from almost any application on any cross-platform from desktop to mobile device, including Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, LINUX and many mobile devices, and sharing it with virtually anyone, anywhere.

PDF Features

Viewable and printable on virtually cross-platform

Rich in file integrity, preserve source file information

Royalty-free to develop PDF compatible software

Open standard for more secure, dependable electronic information exchange

What is PDF/A?

PDF/A is ISO-standards version among a suite of PDF-based standards, original sponsored by the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES) and the Association for Information and Image Management to develop specifications for creating, viewing, and printing digital documents for long-term preservation. Differing from PDF, PDF/A often omit features ill-suited to long-term archiving.

PDF/A Features

Everything needed to render or print a PDF/A file must be contained within the file

Promote use of metadata

Used on independent devices and applications

Prohibit encryption

Provide two levels of compliance PDF/A-1b (the lowest level) and PDF/A-1a (the higher level)

Note: PDF processing and conversion is excluded in the standard RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK, you may add it on with PDF Convertor or .NET PDF Convertor SDK.

PDF Converter is a free conversion application, which is an easy-to-use interface enabling you to quickly convert your PDF images into other file formats, including Bitmap, Png, Gif, Tiff, Jpeg, MS-Word, etc. Besides, Visual C# and VB.NET sample codings are provided for image conversion if you want to use it in .NET development environments.